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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8321446" data-attributes="member: 6796468">You make bigots uncomfortable by making it difficult to be a bigot at all. Sunlight is one method to do that, more direct action is another option such as boycotting, but it doesn't matter how many bigots you take down in public unless their rhetoric is also destroyed or at least debased to a point where everyone recognizes it for what it is and comes to hate it.When bigots feel like they can't be bigoted in front of their own family you have succeeded in large part.The idea that people will be desensitized to recognizing evil is a bit of a cop out. It's a call to fear for the future that if we are too strong in our repudiation of evil we will somehow make evil acceptable. A ridiculous claim, and an argument to ridiculousness based on the idea that somehow every person in the world must be warned of every other person in the world who is not a good person. That is not the case.Even the people who are ridiculously bigoted today largely try to avoid being identified as bigots. They use coded language and things of that nature in an attempt to go under the radar. This means we have largely succeeded at making their level of bigotry, specifically violent bigotry, untenable in greater society.This will continue to be achieved by pointing out problems, getting other people to recognize them, and continuing to ostracize bigots from society until they self reform.</blockquote>

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